Plastics and Industrial Design
Originally published in 1945, Plastics and Industrial Design is a non-technical work of reference for manufacturers and designers who, after the Second World War were beginning to realize the possibilities that manufacturing with Plastics could bring.
Cognitive Computing Using Green Technologies
Cognitive Computing is a new topic which aims to simulate human thought processes using computers that self-learn through data mining, pattern recognition, and natural language processing. This book focuses on the applications of Cognitive Computing in areas like Robotics, Blockchain, Deep Learning, and Wireless Technologies.
Post-Digital Letterpress Printing
This book presents an overview of the convergence of traditional letterpress with contemporary digital design and fabrication practices.
Advanced Numerical Methods for Differential Equations
Mathematical models are used to convert real-life problems using mathematical concepts and language. These models are governed by differential equations whose solutions make it easy to understand real-life problems and can be applied to engineering and science disciplines. This book presents numerical methods for solving various mathematical models.This book offers real-life applications, includes research problems on numerical treatment, and shows how to develop the numerical methods for solving problems. The book also covers theory and applications in engineering and science.Engineers, mathematicians, scientists, and researchers working on real-life mathematical problems will find this book useful.
Emerging Technologies for Textile Coloration
This book features perspectives on advances in textile coloration technologies. It provides a comprehensive and holistic overview, supporting rapid and efficient entry of new researchers into emerging subjects within textile engineering and technology.
Additive Manufacturing Processes in Biomedical Engineering
This book covers innovative breakthroughs in additive manufacturing processes used for biomedical engineering. More and more, 3D printing is selected over traditional manufacturing processes, especially for complex designs, because of the many advantages such as fewer restrictions, better production cost savings, higher quality control, and accuracy.Current challenges and opportunities regarding material, design, cost savings, and efficiency are covered along with an outline of the most recent fabrication methods used for converting biomaterials into integrated structures that can fit best in anatomy while still obtaining the necessary architecture, mechanical reliability, biocompatibility, and anti-bacterial characteristics needed. Additional chapters will also focus on selected areas of applications such as bionics, affordable prostheses, implants, medical devices, rapid tooling, and drug delivery.Additive Manufacturing Processes in Biomedical Engineering: Advanced Fabrication Methods and Rapid Tooling Techniques acts as a first-hand reference for commercial manufacturing organizations which are mimicking tissue organs by using additive manufacturing techniques. By capturing the current trends of today's manufacturing practices this book becomes a one-stop resource for manufacturing professionals, engineers in related disciplines, and academic researchers.
Hybrid Polymeric Nanocomposites from Agricultural Waste
This book examines the use of agricultural byproducts for green production of new materials. It covers nanoparticles synthesis from agricultural wastes and nanocomposite development and considers possible biomedical and engineering applications.
The Missing Technician in Industrial Production
Originally published in 1944, The Missing Technician shows how Industrial Design must begin at the very first stages of planning a product.
Toughened Composites
This book covers micro and macro aspects of toughened composites covering polymer matrix, metal matrix, ceramic matrix and nanomatrix including composites fabrication, construction, and light weight yet high crack - resistance performance, macroscopic testing, models of stress transfer and commercial features.
Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites
This book discusses the most recent research in nanomaterials and nanocomposites for a range of applications, as well as modern characterization tools and techniques. It deals with nanocomposites that contain a dispersion of nanosized particulates and carbon nanotubes in their matrices (polymer, metal, and ceramic).
Global Supply Chain
This book uses a systems-based approach of the tools and techniques of industrial engineering applied to the global supply chain. The specific application addressed in this book is the supply chain, which is disrupted due to COVID-19 and the closure of several plants in the chain.
Additive Manufacturing of Polymers for Tissue Engineering
Additive Manufacturing and Tissue Engineering applications are a field of science and technology that manufactures biocompatible, customized, reliable, and cost-effective parts to restore functionality of a failed human body part. This book offers a platform for recent breakthroughs in additive manufacturing related to biomedical applications.
Enabling Technologies for Next Generation Wireless Communications
Enabling Technologies for Next Generation Wireless Communications provides up-to-date information on emerging trends in wireless systems, their enabling technologies and their evolving application paradigms. This book includes the latest trends and developments toward next generation wireless communications. It highlights the requirements of next generation wireless systems, limitations of existing technologies in delivering those requirements and the need to develop radical new technologies. It focuses on bringing together information on various technological developments that are enablers vital to fulfilling the requirements of future wireless communication systems and their applications. Topics discussed include spectrum issues, network planning, signal processing, transmitter, receiver, antenna technologies, channel coding, security and application of machine learning and deep learning for wireless communication systems. The book also provides information on enabling business models for future wireless systems.This book is useful as a resource for researchers and practitioners worldwide, including industry practitioners, technologists, policy decision-makers, academicians, and graduate students.
Integrating Deep Learning Algorithms to Overcome Challenges in Big Data Analytics
Data science revolves around two giants: Big Data analytics and Deep Learning. It is becoming challenging to handle and retrieve useful information due to how fast data is expanding. This book presents the technologies and tools to simplify and streamline the formation of Big Data as well as Deep Learning systems. This book discusses how Big Data and Deep Learning hold the potential to significantly increase data understanding and decision-making. It also covers numerous applications in healthcare, education, communication, media, and entertainment. Integrating Deep Learning Algorithms to Overcome Challenges in Big Data Analytics offers innovative platforms for integrating Big Data and Deep Learning and presents issues related to adequate data storage, semantic indexing, data tagging, and fast information retrieval. FEATURES Provides insight into the skill set that leverages one's strength to act as a good data analyst Discusses how Big Data and Deep Learning hold the potential to significantly increase data understanding and help in decision-making Covers numerous potential applications in healthcare, education, communication, media, and entertainment Offers innovative platforms for integrating Big Data and Deep Learning Presents issues related to adequate data storage, semantic indexing, data tagging, and fast information retrieval from Big Data This book is aimed at industry professionals, academics, research scholars, system modelers, and simulation experts.
Rheology Applied in Polymer Processing
This book covers a wide range of topics in polymer rheology and will be very useful to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as teachers and practicing rheologists.
Progress in Polymer Research for Biomedical, Energy and Specialty Applications
This book covers key features of advancements in polymeric materials and their specialty applications covering biopolymers, polymer-based biomaterials, polymer-based nanohybrids, polymer-based nanocomposites, polymer supported regenerative medicines, advanced polymers for microfluidic devices and advanced polymer device fabrication techniques.
Entrepreneurial Innovations, Models, and Implementation Strategies for Industry 4.0
This book explores the link between entrepreneurship and innovation, providing an understanding of the latest developments in the field. It explores numerous challenges to entrepreneurship, such as failures and socio-economic issues, and presents concepts, models, and implementation strategies for Industry 4.0.Industry 4.0 presents unique challenges and unique opportunities to entrepreneurs. Social, techno, and women's entrepreneurship, among other business sectors and domains, are discussed in this new context. This book highlights the strategies of successful start-up organizations, focusing on the most critical factors for starting a new enterprise in today's business environment, and provides efficient remedies for common problems. These strategies and solutions will help build a sustainable development model for developing economies and contribute to a global awareness of the entrepreneurship environment.Entrepreneurial Innovations, Models, and Implementation Strategies for Industry 4.0 is both a practical guide for new entrepreneurs to establishing start-ups and an enlightening collection of research for graduate students, postgraduate students, scholars, and academicians across all disciplines. Policymakers will also benefit from this book's understanding of entrepreneurial ecosystems and their applications.
Healthcare Systems and Health Informatics
This book covers the fundamentals of IoT and healthcare systems for carrying out system architectures, protocols, wearable devices, and interoperability. It explores major challenges in artificial intelligence (AI) and smart computing in resource-constrained IoT-based applications along with cost, energy efficiency, and the availability of quality service.Healthcare Systems and Health Informatics: Using Internet of Things explores the role of AI and smart computing in health informatics and healthcare with an emphasis on clinical data management and analysis for precise prediction and prompt action. It presents cutting-edge tracking, monitoring, real-time assistance, and security for IoT in healthcare and broadly discusses wearable sensors and IoT devices and their role in smart living assistance. The book goes on to describe a system model and architecture for a clear picture of energy conservation-based IoT in healthcare and explains the challenges and opportunities with IoT-based healthcare industries. A study of the threats and impacts, along with the need for information security, is also included.The chapters are written by experts in the field, and this book provides a comprehensive description of the important aspects of IoT and health from a beginner- to advanced-level perspective and is ideal for researchers, academicians, students, persons in industry, technologists, and entrepreneurs.
Industry 5.0
Technology has created innovative new prospects for manufacturing industries with Industry 4.0 and has helped further the growth of the manufacturing sector. This book focuses on the next stage, which is Industry 5.0, and the steps in taking automation to that next level by increasing processes and operational efficiency, as well as reducing workforce size.Industry 5.0: The Future of the Industrial Economy discusses the integration of product, process, machine, software, and industrial robots in realizing Industry 5.0. It covers the dual integration of human intelligence with machine intelligence and reviews the results of making use of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The creation of a new category of robots named Collaborative Robots (Cobots) specifically designed to speed up the manufacturing process and profitability is explored. This book also explores how to reduce waste in product design through the manufacturing process and offers more personalized and customized products for customers.Manufacturing, design, industrial, and mechanical engineers, as well as practicing professionals, will find this book of interest. Management executives, CIOs, CEOs, IT professionals, and academics will also find something of value in this book that takes Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 and beyond.
pH Responsive Membranes
This book provides an application-oriented approach for pH responsive membranes and types of stimuli-responsive membranes and their applications in the biomedical field including initial development and recent use. It explains types, modes, and modification methods of membranes, along with membrane usage in applications such as drug delivery, hemodialysis, chemical sensing, and so forth. pH Responsive Membranes: Biomedical Applications explores recent research carried out in the area as well as the future outlook, and provides deeper insight for readers on the subject, ranging from the basics to advanced levels on the topic.Features Describes preparation, characterization, and applications of pH responsive membranes in biomedical applications Introduces theoretical understanding of pH responsiveness Covers development of advanced techniques regarding pH responsive membranes Provides insight into development of new materials and membranes Discusses advancements in drug delivery, hemodialysis, antibodies and enzyme production, chemical sensing, and selective ionic transport using pH responsive membranes This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers involved in membrane and chemical engineering/polymer exploration, and medical researchers.
Disruptive Technologies for Society 5.0
This book investigates how we as citizens of Society 5.0 borrow the disruptive technologies like Blockchain, IoT, cloud and software-defined networking from Industry 4.0, with its automation and digitization of manufacturing verticals, to change the way we think and act in cyberspace incorporated within everyday life. The technologies are explored in Non-IT sectors, their implementation challenges put on the table, and new directions of thought flagged off. Disruptive Technologies for Society 5.0: Exploration of New Ideas, Techniques, and Tools is a pathbreaking book on current research, with case studies to comprehend their importance, in technologies that disrupt the de facto. This book is intended for researchers and academicians and will enable them to explore new ideas, techniques, and tools.
Composite Fabrication on Age-Hardened Alloy using Friction Stir Processing
The text discusses an important aspect of strengthening age-hardened alloy using solid-state friction stir processing for diverse applications in industries. It will serve as an ideal reference for graduate students, academic researchers, and professionals in the field of mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and materials science.
Advanced Materials for Biomechanical Applications
This reference text covers advanced materials, their properties, processing and applications in a single volume. It will serve as a useful text for graduate students and academic researchers in areas including materials science, manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering, and industrial engineering.
Sustainability in Industry 4.0
A large and growing number of manufacturers are realizing the substantial financial and environmental benefits of sustainable business practices. To develop more sustainable societies, industries need to better understand how to respond to environmental, economic, and social challenges and transform industrial behavior. The objective of this book is to provide the required knowledge and accelerate the transition towards a sustainable industrial system.The book will help industries to enhance operational efficiency by reducing costs and waste. It will help them increase customer response, reach new customers, and gain competitive advantage. It offers innovation, scenario planning, and strategic analysis that goes beyond compliance, as well as case studies and remedies to the industry 4.0 challenges.Professionals, as well as students, can refer to this book to add to their knowledge on Industry 4.0 and develop new ideas and solutions to the existing and future problems.
Industry 4.0 in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Focusing on the broader areas of Industry 4.0 as it applies to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this book offers a smooth adoption of techniques and technologies and presents advances, challenges, and opportunities for implementation.
Cybersecurity
It is becoming increasingly important to design and develop adaptive, robust, scalable, reliable, security and privacy mechanisms for IoT applications and for Industry 4.0 related concerns. This book serves as a useful guide for researchers and industry professionals and will help beginners to learn the basics to the more advanced topics.Along with exploring security and privacy issues through the IoT ecosystem and examining its implications to the real-world, this book addresses cryptographic tools and techniques and presents the basic and high-level concepts that can serve as guidance for those in the industry as well as help beginners get a handle on both the basic and advanced aspects of security related issues. The book goes on to cover major challenges, issues, and advances in IoT and discusses data processing as well as applications for solutions, and assists in developing self-adaptive cyberphysical security systems that will help with issues brought about by new technologies within IoT and Industry 4.0. This edited book discusses the evolution of IoT and Industry 4.0 and brings security and privacy related technological tools and techniques onto a single platform so that researchers, industry professionals, graduate, postgraduate students, and academicians can easily understand the security, privacy, challenges and opportunity concepts and make then ready to use for applications in IoT and Industry 4.0.
MXene-Filled Polymer Nanocomposites
This book covers all advances in the field of MXene-filled polymer nanocomposites till date illustrating fabrication, characterization, specific properties like anti-healing, anti-friction and microwave absorption. It further covers potential applications like energy conversion and storage systems, and antibacterial and drug delivery.
Cyber-Physical, IoT, and Autonomous Systems in Industry 4.0
This book addresses topics related to Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, Cloud Computing and Autonomous Vehicles for Industry 4.0. It investigates challenges across multiple sectors, industries and considers Industry 4.0 for operations research and supply chain management.
Nanomanufacturing and Nanomaterials Design
This text focuses on nanomanufacturing, right from its origin to the current advancements, latest nanomanufacturing techniques, and various applications.
Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes
This book discusses advanced materials and manufacturing processes with insights and overviews on tribology, automation, mechanical, biomedical, and aerospace engineering, as well as the optimization of industrial applications. The book explores the different types of composite materials while reporting on the design considerations and applications of each. Offering an overview of futuristic research areas, the book examines various engineering optimization and multi-criteria decision-making techniques and introduces a specific control framework used in analyzing processes. The book includes problem analyses and solving skills and covers different types of composite materials, their design considerations, and applications. This book is an informational resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, scholars, and field professionals, providing an update on the current advancements in the field of manufacturing processes.
Eco-Friendly Waterborne Polyurethanes
The polyurethane industry is among the fastest growing, with polyurethanes used in consumer as well as industrial sectors. Waterborne polyurethanes (WPUs) exhibit many advantages over conventional volatile organic compounds (VOCs) based polyurethanes and have emerged as an environmentally friendly alternative. WPUs offer an opportunity to use sustainable raw materials to produce environmentally sustainable polymers, particularly, polyols derived from vegetable oils. Eco-Friendly Waterborne Polyurethanes: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications provides state-of-the-art knowledge of the synthesis, application, and property enhancement of WPUs. Covers various types of eco-friendly materials and technologies used to synthesize WPUs Presents an overview and applications of WPUs in several advanced research areas Provides fundamentals of synthetic processes and their chemistries for specific applications Elaborates on advanced approaches used to convert renewable resources into polymers Offers new direction to scientists, researchers, and students to better understand the chemistry, technologies, and applications Written for polymer chemists, materials scientists, and other researchers and industry, this book serves as a comprehensive reference for readers interested in the development and application of sustainable polymers.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science Technologies
This book provides a comprehensive, conceptual, and detailed overview of the wide range of applications of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science and how these technologies have an impact on various domains such as healthcare, business, industry, security, and how all countries around the world are feeling this impact. The book aims at low-cost solutions which could be implemented even in developing countries. It highlights the significant impact these technologies have on various industries and on us as humans. It provides a virtual picture of forthcoming better human life shadowed by the new technologies and their applications and discusses the impact Data Science has on business applications. The book will also include an overview of the different AI applications and their correlation between each other. The audience is graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academicians, institutions, and professionals who are interested in exploring key technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science.
Springback Assessment and Compensation of Tailor Welded Blanks
Focusing on techniques developed to evaluate the forming behavior of tailor welded blanks in sheet metal manufacturing, this edited collection details compensation methods suited for mitigating the effects of springback. This book gives a comprehensive overview of springback and provides essential solutions necessary to automotive engineers.
Inventory Planning with Innovation
Inventory Planning with Innovation: A Cost Focus discusses inventory planning concepts with major emphasis on innovation to reduce cost in a single volume. Provides an understanding of innovation efforts and linking it with inventory planning in reducing cost. Offers various factors influencing innovation efforts, knowledge of investment or expenditure that might be estimated before starting the innovation efforts, purchase inventory, and the manufacturing inventory. Covers important concepts including innovation efforts, strategic period, procurement inventory, total cost estimation, production inventory, related total cost planning, multiple products, multiple items procurements, and multiple items manufacture. This reference is primarily written for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and professionals in the field of industrial engineering, production engineering, and manufacturing science.
Swarm Intelligence
Swarm intelligence is one of the fastest growing subfields of artificial intelligence and soft computing. This field includes multiple optimization algorithms to solve NP-hard problems for which conventional methods are not effective. It inspires researchers in engineering sciences to learn theories from nature and incorporate them.Swarm Intelligence: Foundation, Principles, and Engineering Applications provides a comprehensive review of new swarm intelligence techniques and offers practical implementation of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) with MATLAB code. The book discusses the statistical analysis of swarm optimization techniques so that researchers can analyse their experiment design. It also includes algorithms in social sectors, oil and gas industries, and recent research findings of new optimization algorithms in the field of engineering describing the implementation in machine learning. This book is written for students of engineering, research scientists, and academicians involved in the engineering sciences.
Blockchain Technology for Data Privacy Management
The book aims to showcase the basics of both IoT and Blockchain for beginners as well as their integration and challenge discussions for existing practitioner. It aims to develop understanding of the role of blockchain in fostering security. The objective of this book is to initiate conversations among technologists, engineers, scientists, and clinicians to synergize their efforts in producing low-cost, high-performance, highly efficient, deployable IoT systems. It presents a stepwise discussion, exhaustive literature survey, rigorous experimental analysis and discussions to demonstrate the usage of blockchain technology for securing communications. The book evaluates, investigate, analyze and outline a set of security challenges that needs to be addressed in the near future. The book is designed to be the first reference choice at research and development centers, academic institutions, university libraries and any institutions interested in exploring blockchain. UG/PG students, PhD Scholars of this fields, industry technologists, young entrepreneurs and researchers working in the field of blockchain technology are the primary audience of this book.
Smart Sensor Networks Using AI for Industry 4.0
Smart Sensor Networks (WSNs) using AI have left a mark on the lives of all by aiding in various sectors, such as manufacturing, education, healthcare, and monitoring of the environment and industries. This book covers recent AI applications and explores aspects of modern sensor technologies and the systems needed to operate them. The book reviews the fundamental concepts of gathering, processing, and analyzing different AI-based models and methods. It covers recent WSN techniques for the purpose of effective network management on par with the standards laid out by international organizations in related fields and focuses on both core concepts along with major applicational areas.The book will be used by technical developers, academicians, data sciences, industrial professionals, researchers, and students interested in the latest innovations on problem-oriented processing techniques in sensor networks using IoT and evolutionary computer applications for Industry 4.0.
Handbook of Green Computing and Blockchain Technologies
This handbook provides a computational perspective on green computing and blockchain technologies. It presents not only how to identify challenges using a practical approach but also how to develop strategies for addressing industry challenges.Handbook of Green Computing and Blockchain Technologies takes a practical-oriented approach, including solved examples and highlights standardization, industry bodies, and initiatives. Case studies provide a deeper understanding of blockchain and are related to real-time scenarios. The handbook analyzes current research and development in green computing and blockchain analytics, studies existing related standards and technologies, and provides results on implementation, challenges, and issues in today's society.FEATURES Analyzes current research developments in green computing and blockchain analytics Provides an analysis of implementation challenges and solutions Offers innovations in the decentralization process for the application of blockchain in areas such as healthcare, government services, agriculture, supply chain, financial, ecommerce, and more Discusses the impact of this technology on people's lives, the way they work and learn, and highlights standardization, industry bodies, and initiatives This handbook will benefit researchers, software developers, and undergraduate and postgraduate students in industrial systems, manufacturing, information technology, computer science, manufacturing, communications, and electrical engineering.
Data Security in Internet of Things Based RFID and WSN Systems Applications
This book focuses on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), IoT (Internet of Things), and WSN (Wireless Sensor Network). It includes contributions that discuss the security and privacy issues as well as the opportunities and applications that are tightly linked to sensitive infrastructures and strategic services. This book addresses the complete functional framework and workflow in IoT-enabled RFID systems and explores basic and high-level concepts. It is based on the latest technologies and covers the major challenges, issues, and advances in the field. It presents data acquisition and case studies related to data-intensive technologies in RFID-based IoT and includes WSN-based systems and their security.It can serve as a manual for those in the industry while also helping beginners to understand both the basic and advanced aspects of IoT-based RFID-related issues. This book can be a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered, and find solutions that have been adopted in the fields of IoT and analytics.
Production Management, Manufacturing, and Process Control
Drawing on contributions from various manufacturing fields, this book offers a comprehensive perspective by combining theoretical concepts with practical applications. It emphasizes future developments, the integration of technologies, and the crucial role of humans in manufacturing companies.
Plastics in the Circular Economy
We cannot imagine a world without plastics. Plastic products make our daily life safe, healthy and convenient. Besides all the benefits, the current plastics economy gives rise to environmental concerns with respect to fossil oil depletion and plastic waste accumulation. In a circular economy, however, plastics can be redesigned for reusability and recyclability. This book makes the topic of sustainable plastics approachable for students and career starters alike, describing the nature and chemistry of (bio)polymers as well as how to create a closed loop of plastic materials. The new edition expands on vitrimers, microplastics, recycling and examples. Discusses the new plastics economy chemistry and properties of polymers biodegradable plastics and polymers from renewable resources and plastics recycling.
Recent Advancements in Multidimensional Applications of Nanotechnology
Recent Advancements in Multidimensional Applications of Nanotechnology provides a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements and applications of nanotechnology across various dimensions. Covering a wide range of topics, from electron microscopy to nanotherapeutic strategies, the book explores the diverse applications of nanotechnology in industries and research fields. Key Features: -Comprehensive Coverage: Gain insights into electron microscopy, biogenic synthesis methods, energy applications, and more.-Industry Applications: Discover how nanotechnology is revolutionizing industries such as energy, oil and gas, agriculture, and healthcare.-Cutting-Edge Developments: Stay ahead of the curve with discussions on copper oxide nanoparticles, nano-coatings, and thin film optimization for solar cells.-Biomedical Breakthroughs: Explore the exciting realm of biomedical applications, from metallic nanoparticles in healthcare to biogenic synthesis methods.-Practical Insights: Benefit from practical insights and case studies that showcase real-world applications of nanotechnology.
Fiber-Optic-Based Sensing Systems
The need for both intrinsic and extrinsic fiber-optic sensor technologies continues to grow. To meet the demands of this fast-expanding applications-driven market, this book discusses both the latest advances and recent application opportunities along with the basic optical phenomena, with the main emphasis on applying optical knowledge for solving real-life engineering problems.Key features of the book: - Highlights the uniqueness of fiber-optics sensors- Presents state-of-the-art technology in optical fiber sensors- Discusses a variety of fiber-optic topologies- Considers different detection techniques- Gives special attention to distributed fiber-optic sensing systemsBasic tools and concepts are presented in the earlier chapters, which are then developed in more detail in the later chapters. The book is organized in seven chapters covering a broad range of fiber-optical sensing phenomena. Written for undergraduate and graduate students who want to broaden their knowledge of fiber-optic sensing system applications for real-life engineering problems, the volume is also valuable for engineers who want to acquire the basic principles of optics, especially fiber-optics.
Fundamentals of Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a manufacturing process that has emerged as a viable technology for the production of engineering components. The aspects associated with additive manufacturing, such as less material wastage, ease of manufacturing, less human involvement, fewer tool and fixture requirements, and less post-processing, make the process sustainable for industrial use. Further, this new technology has led to highly optimized product characteristics and functional aspects. This textbook introduces the basics of this new additive manufacturing technology to individuals who will be involved in the grand spectrum of manufacturing finished products.Fundamentals of Additive Manufacturing Technology: Principles, Technologies, and Applications provides knowledge and insight into various aspects of AM and deals with the basics, categories, materials, tooling, and equipment used. It presents a classified and complete description of the most common and recently developed additive manufacturing methods with applications, solved examples, and review questions. This textbook also emphasizes the fundamentals of the process, its capabilities, typical applications, advantages, and limitations, and also discusses the challenges, needs, and general recommendations for additive manufacturing.This fundamental textbook is written specifically for undergraduates in manufacturing, mechanical, industrial, and materials engineering disciplines for courses in manufacturing technology taught in engineering colleges and institutions all over the world. It also covers the needs of production and manufacturing engineers and technologists participating in related industries. Additionally, the textbook can be used by students in other disciplines concerned with design and manufacturing, such as automotive, biomedical, and aerospace engineering.
Design and Structure of Textile Fabrics
This book details the development of textile products and deals with different aspects of fabric structure and textile design. It covers topics essential to understanding textile fabrics - such as intertwined and non-woven fabrics, pique design, mosaic knitting, and spot designs. The subject matter of this book also includes: Properties of plain, twill and satin weave Types of jacquard Tubular fabrics Two-bar fabric structure Color effect on twill weaves Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)
Advanced Woven Fabric Design
Keeping in mind the advancements in the field of science and technology within the context of weaving, this book discusses advanced woven fabric design. It details the structural aspects of woven fabric and expands upon the related weaving or loom equipment required to produce a specific fabric structure. The subject matter of this book includes: Treble clothes Weft pile fabrics Damask and brocade fabrics Gauze and leno Practical aspects of fabric analysis This book includes illustrative examples and worksheets, which enable the reader to gain first-hand practice of fabric designing.Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan or Bhutan)
